Confection-rolling machine



(No Model.)

- W. J. WHITE.

GONFEGTION ROLLING MAGHINE.

No. 424,393. Patented Mala-25, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM J. \VHITE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CONFECTlON-ROLLJNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,393, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed September 2'7, 1 888- Serial No. 286,538. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Confection Rolling Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in improvements in confection-rolling machines, and has for its object the saving of labor and greater facility in the work, all as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims. Heretofore in this style of machines, when employed in the preparation of chewing-gum, two persons were required to attend the work of each machine-one to feed the gum between the rolls and the other to return the gum to the first for arepetition of the processeach batch of gum requiring to be passed through the rolls several'times before it is reduced to the requisite thickness. By employing my invention the same is performed by a single attendant, and the work of the second attendant is done automatically by the machine.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a rear elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section; Fig. 4, a view of the lower knife or scraper; and Fig. 5, a detail sectional view, the section being taken on line a: 00, Fig. 3, parts of the frame being broken away.

In so far as the rollers A B are concerned, and the supporting-frame D and train of gears E, I lay no claim to invention or nov- .elty, as these have been used before for like purposes. In connection with these parts I employ afeed-table F, leading up to the rolls, which has a cross-bar f for protection of the attendant against danger from the rolls, and may, it thought best, be covered over on top with wire screen or the like for greater security. The gum is fed to the rolls over this table, and a hand wheel g on shaft G serves through connecting mechanism to raise or lower the upper roll 13, so as to graduate the space between the rolls to suit the thickness of the sheet of gum. In operation the upper roll will be gradually run down from its highest elevation as the gum is reduced in thickness by each passage.

Now, instead of having a second attendant at the rear of the machine to hand the gum back to the feeder, I introduce a hood II, which, as will be seen in Fig. 3, extends from its. supporting-rod 72., running across the machine above and behind the rollers, down in a curved line to a point between the rollers just back of their nearest contact, so as to take up the sheet of gum as it emerges from the rollers, and, guiding it round on the face of the hood, carry it forward within reach of the attendant. The attendant having fed a batch or sheet of gum to the rolls need give it no further attention as it passes through, and is at liberty to receive the gum as it emerges from the rolls over the face of the hood, as abovedescribed. Then the same gum is put through the machine again, if necessary, and this action is repeated with each successive feed until the rolling of each is finished.

A scraper I, to clean the lower roll, is arranged with its sharp edge in contact with the top of said roll just in advance of the lower edge of the hood, while another scraper Z0 is arranged to clean the upper roller B. The lower scraper forms the support for the hood or curved guides for the gum, and is itself supported at its ends on the frame of the machine and intermediately by posts 1 The mechanism is propelled from the shaft of the lower roller, which has pulleys for connecting with the driving power. The upper scraper k is secured to the plates m, attached to the bearing-blocks m for the upper roll, so that it will rise and fall with said roll and be always in the same relation thereto, whatever the position of the roll when it has been adjusted to the desired position.

It should be understood that the. plate and scraper here referred to are rigidly fastened to the bearing-blocks m and moved therewith, so that the scraper is always in position to work, whether the roll be raised or lowered.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a confection-rolling machine, two rolls, one above the other, the upper roller being 10 of rolls,

adjustable up and down, a scraper in contact with the surface of the lower roll, a guide for the confection material extending from said scraper in a curve around behind the upper roll, and a scraper for the upper roll adj ustable with said roll, the said scrapers extending substantially from end to end or the rolls, substantially as described.

2. In a confection-rolling nachine, a pair one above the other, a feed-table in front of the rolls, a fixed scraper for the lower roll substantially on a line With said table, a curved guide for the confection bearing'on said scraper at its lower edge and extending thence back of and above the upper roll, the upper roll having adjustable bearings, and a scraper attached to said bearings and movable therewith, substantially as set forth.

. WVILLIAM J. WVI-IITE.

Witnesses:

IRENE L. COREY, WM. M. MONROE. 

